And so our time here is coming to an end. Contracts have been inked, details have been hammered out and a completion date been set. The last couple of days have been particularly stressful for me as I have had to adopt a hard-nosed business persona to get what I want. The person I was dealing with was a little dishonest with the initial draft of the contract and I had to stand firm. Remembering shows such as “The Apprentice” I would ask myself “What would Donald Trump do?” and to a lesser extent “What would Alan Sugar do?”. My doggedness paid off and I got what I had made an offer on.
I might as well come clean now as I am on the home strait. I am quitting the freelance writing business and I am buying a busy shop in a little village. When you’ve achieved all you are going to achieve in your field it is time to change direction and do something completely different, I feel. Plus, I wanted to do something where I could do an honest day’s work (and get paid a decent wage for it, instead of scrabbling for freelance scraps like a dog) and still have time for BabyLockTM (who has yet to make an appearance). So that’s the big secret out of the bag.
The thing is that where we are going to is a small village and I don’t think it prudent to keep the blog going. It might scare off my customers! So maybe it is time to close this place down and only concentrate on my musical noodlings? The alternative is to go anonymous and create a pseudonym. I don’t know – the Internet isn’t as exciting as it used to be. It’s just a million mindless monkeys chattering for attention. I mean who the heck wants to read my self-centred bleatings, let alone download the tuneless drivel I record?
Anyway, let’s end on a positive note. Here’s a message posted on the blog from Luis of Spain:

First of all excuse me for my english. I´m from Spain. A love Robert Fripp like you. I find your music interesting, specially the soundscapes. This of 7/7/6 is extremly beautiful, fantastic, peacefull..
I have a Godin and an Axon (a unit like Roland).
Please tell me what equipment you use in this song and in general. Where do you obtein these sounds from?
Thanks.

Well Luis, thanks for your kind comments. It’s these words that fuel my creative fire. I certainly don’t do it for money, otherwise I’d have starved ages ago! But here’s my list of guitar equipment that I use in my recordings:
Godin xtSA guitar
Roland VG-88 Virtual Guitar System
Roland GR-33 Guitar Synthesiser
Boss DD-20 Giga-Delay
Boss RC-50 Loop Station
Hope this helps!

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